page_title: William Burkitt (judge)
section_title: Emir of Afghanistan
hierarchical_section_title: William Burkitt (judge) / Emir of Afghanistan
caption_attribution_description: English: The record of the induction of Emir Habibullah Khan into Masonry in 1907
context_page_description: Sir William Robert Burkitt was an Irish judge in British India in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
context_section_description: His most well-known achievement was, together with Lord Kitchener (then District Grandmaster of Punjab), to induct the Emir of Afghanistan Habibullah Khan at Freemasons Hall at Lodge Concordia in Park Street, Kolkata in 1907.  This lodge is the home of the United Grand Lodge of Bengal of which Burkitt was District Grandmaster.
  An account of this highly unusual event was written at the time by Sir Henry McMahon.  It was performed in an unusual style, the Emir taking all three ordinary degrees of masonry at once - a rare event rumoured to signify membership of the Roshaniya.
caption: Induction of Emir Habibullah Khan IV of Afghanistan into Masonry on 1 Feb 1907, by William Robert Burkitt and others.
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